chroma

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Meanwhile figures such as Albert H. Munsell, a painter-turned-color-theorist, devised systems that mapped color by hue, value and chroma in an effort to translate perception into measurable terms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

But if there’s a little bit more ambient lighting, colors look washed out, or low in chroma.

From Salon • Nov. 16, 2024

The Watts Towers aim to split the sky into chroma, spires tiled with rubble nothing less than aspiration.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2024

Acid-green projected light — known as chroma green, used by film studios for “green screen” effects — bathes the big gallery off the rotunda.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2023

This is simply change of hue, without change of value or chroma if the path be level, but, by inclining it, one end of the sequence becomes lighter, while the other end darkens.

From A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma by Munsell, A. H. (Albert Henry)